The well-known adage—A bird in hand is worth two in the bush—is typically used to encourage being grateful for what we already have, rather than pining for something currently out of reach. Putting aside, for the moment, the usefulness of such advice, let’s utilize the imagery itself to explore the notion of separation … Experiencing & Identifying the Birds Imagine I have a bird—say, a …
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Morning-fair, follow me further back Into that minnowy world of weeds and ditches, When the herons floated high over the white houses, And the little crabs slipped into silvery craters. When the sun for me glinted the sides of a sand grain, And my intent stretched over the buds at their first trembling. That air and shine: and the flicker’s loud summer call: The bearded boards in the …